The Burden of Power: Countdown to Iraq - The Alastair Campbell Diaries (128 page)

The march against the war, February 2003.

Two ministers who eventually resigned in protest: Clare Short ...

... and Robin Cook.

Though the run-up to war preoccupied everyone, Campbell found time to train for the 2003 London Marathon. Here, at the finishing line with Fiona.

He raised half a million pounds for Leukaemia Research in memory of his best friend John Merritt ...

... prompting the charity to remind him of his day job.

Saddam is toppled.

Blair thanks the troops.

Bill Clinton (
far right
) works on a speech with (
left to right
) Peter Mandelson, Philip Gould and Alastair Campbell.

A cartoonist links Clinton’s past problems to Campbell’s current ones.

John Scarlett, the spy forced out into the open ...

... by the row over weapons inspector David Kelly.

Alastair Campbell, with Jonathan Powell behind him, leaves Number 10.

Alastair Campbell giving evidence to the Foreign Affairs select committee.